Wendy’s Kids Meals Toy – Saxazoo
Seems Wendy’s kids menu toy, in conjunction with “America’s Got Talent”, has a Saxazoo instrument with it. I don’t think it’s going to create a huge demand for playing the real thing though….
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Rico Saxophone Strap
A few months ago, RicoReeds.com had a survey or something (honestly don’t remember) on their website that, if you took the time to fill it out, they’d send you a neck strap. Well, lo and behold months later, I received said strap. (it looks sorta like the one on the right, sorta. The patterns different.)…
Rock Band Network…..Saxophone Hero?
I’ve seen this around the net, even linked from SyFy.com. It’s kind of neat, but…..could we please have real notation? Also….why bother doing this in the first place? I mean, it’s one thing to play pop/rock songs on saxophone (which I have no qualms about doing), but I don’t really see this doing much for…
World’s Worst Saxophone Player?
There are a LOT of bad videos on Youtube, but this one looks like the chowderhead is playing for a gig. Hopefully he is paying THEM not vice versa. Sad really. My reeds feel like committing seppuku after hearing this.
Bolling Suite For……Soprano Sax
I recently transposed and modified 2 movements of the Bolling Suite for Flute and Trio for Oboe. It was a simple click of a button to make a version for Soprano Sax. Enjoy. Edit: Updated in Dorico. Also included iPad versions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_QOlCJUek&list=PL4_LMPDm3D7lG3VCfrnDiaOTkA27roR1K Paper versionsiPad versions
Zinn Practice Regimen For Saxophone
Ok, I think this is the FINAL version of this. Last updated in 2005, this version took out some stuff I had in there, and put in some stuff I have been practicing lately (triad things). 32 Pages of Saxophone goodness. It is FREE and available here and via Lulu here Plus you can buy…
Walrus Plays The Saxophone
From the UK (those crazy Brits) The Beatles once penned the song “I am the Walrus” but now this whiskered marine mammal has proved that the animal kingdom can blow its own trumpet. Under the direction of her trainer, Sara the Walrus grips the brass instrument between her flippers and blasts out a note. Wetsuit-clad…
The Conn-O-Sax
While surfing the net, I came across the strange instrument called the Conn-O-Sax. There is one on Ebay right now that can be bought for the princely sum of $100,000 (I kid NOT). Conn made these to spur sales that had been slumpin. Seems they made them from 1915 to 1925, and they believed it…
Finally a Good Sampled Saxophone Instrument?
We have all suffered the pain of listening to synthed or sampled saxophones. Some of them have sounds that kill at 50 paces. Some of them try to convince you they are real like an inept Politician trying to get reelected. All generally fail to sound like the real thing. Enter SampleModeling’s new Tenor Saxophone…
Saxophones from Taiwan Aiming for the Pros
I came across this article at the NPR. It is about Taiwan saxophones. “Just how Houli became the world’s unsung center of saxophone making is largely an accident of history. The story dates back to just after World War II. It stars a larger-than-life character named Chang Lien-cheng. He was a farmer’s son who abandoned…
Grafton Alto Sax
After the previous article on a new line of Plastic Saxophones, lets examine a previous, and famous, attempt at making such an instrument. Here is Peter King playing one the legendary Grafton Alto Sax played by Charlie Parker. Here is a great review of the Grafton Alto Sax.
All Plastic Saxophone
There seems to be a resurgence in this idea. Enter the Vibrotosax. To create more saxophonist in the world is our prime concern. Our designer team need to accomplish 3 objectives….Design a saxophone that everyone can afford, provide a standard fingering configuration and producce a solid saxophone sound. The solution: to replace brass with polymer….
Boots Randolph’s Rock And Roll Saxophone
Boots Randolph’s Rock and Roll Saxophone – Techniques and Fundamentals for Today’s Players by Boots Randolph and Mike Shannon is 63 pages that try to show you how to play rock and roll like Boots. Not that Boots playing could in any way be condensed down to so few pages. The first part of the…
Jazz Saxophone Etudes By Greg Fishman Vol. 2
Greg Fishman has been at it again. This time, he has come out with yet another book of Jazz Etudes. Again, he has named each Etude after a street in Chicago. I’ll just take Greg’s books in lieu of a tourist map if I ever visit Chicago. Really. I believe he’s covered every major street…
Keyless Saxophones
When I was in college, I heard the story of Siguard Rascher having a keyless saxophone. Basically, a conical tube in the shape of a sax. Mr. Rascher was reported to be able to play anything on it. Well, looks like you can actually get one and try to be a virtuoso like Siguard Rascher….